{"id":12543,"date":"2025-03-19T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2025-03-19T09:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:20:32","slug":"farmers-told-to-directly-sell-palay-to-nfa-for-better-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/farmers-told-to-directly-sell-palay-to-nfa-for-better-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"FARMERS TOLD TO DIRECTLY SELL PALAY TO NFA FOR BETTER PRICES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>FARMERS can sell their palay directly to the National Food Authority (NFA) for better prices, Malaca\u00f1ang announced on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presidential Communications Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer Claire Castro belied reports that rice importation has been depressing domestic palay prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a press briefing, Castro said farmers should coordinate with the local government units (LGUs) to bring these to the NFA buying station.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citing records from the Department of Agriculture (DA), Castro said the country has recently experienced low rice imports, and local traders may influence current play prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Castro also stated that the DA addresses farmers\u2019 concerns about the lack of transport for hauling palay, noting that the agency procures transport vehicles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The DA is currently conducting a bidding process, and once the trucks are available, farmers will be able to sell palay directly to the NFA, she said.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARMERS can sell their palay directly to the National Food Authority (NFA) for better prices, Malaca&ntilde;ang announced on Tuesday. Presidential Communications Undersecretary and Palace Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12545,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions\/12545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}